It has now been about two years since I filed a complaint with the FTC to alert them to all the data security breaches involving Experian’s credit report database. And while I continue to wait to see the FTC take action against Experian over their numerous breaches involving misuse of clients’ login credentials, Experian…
Category: Breach Incidents
Cost of Target data breach exceeds $200M so far just for card replacement-related costs for 22M customers
From the Credit Union National Association: Financial institutions continue to respond to the massive data breach at Target. According to data collected by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) and the Credit Union National Association the costs associated with the Target data breech (sic) exceed $200 million. CBA estimates the cost of card replacements for its members to have reached…
Muslim Directory hacked, 38,903 User Credentials Leaked
A hacker using the handle @th3inf1d3l has today announced an leak of data from muslimdirectory.co.uk resulting in 38,903 User credentials being leaked online. The breach has been announce from th3inf1d3l’s twitter account with a link to pastebin which contains a short message, some server and database information and a link to the complete leak on stashbox.org. OpFuckMohammad…
Forbes Breach Email Statistics
Total of 1,056,986 E-mail’s Found are unique. Total of 111,735 E-mail Providers 564 FORBES.COM 844 .GOV 14,572 .EDU Below is a list of all email providers that have 2 or more in the breach. (full list here) Article: https://datalossdb.org gmail.com: [407769] yahoo.com: [181617] hotmail.com: [86667] aol.com: [25032] justafou.com: [20092] asertol1.co.tv: [17472] comcast.net: [11368] live.com: [9842] xamog.com:…
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes, steals and dumps employee and user data
So by now, regular readers will likely have already heard that the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked Forbes.com to express their displeasure with Forbes’ reporting on their activities, and what they perceive as Forbes’ antipathy towards Syria. The attack was announced through their Twitter account, with the hacktivists claiming to have acquired more than one…
NY: Another arrest in Golden Town Buffet skimming case
Albany Times Union reports the latest development in a card skimming case that affected customers at the Golden Town Buffet last summer; A Manhattan man was arrested in an investigation into credit-card skimming at a Glenmont restaurant, town police said Thursday. In August, authorities used a search warrant at Golden Town Buffet on Route 9W as…